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"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
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"For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air."
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"It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone's will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confident rectitude she had wanted to shatter by means of the poison of guilt-as if, were he to collapse, his depravity would give her a right to hers."
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"Nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. Look-my feet don't hit the marble! Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising, I hover six inches in the air in my blazing swan-egg of light. You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn."
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"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage."
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"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."
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"The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?"
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"Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise."
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